Future Band Directors Camp Cancelled

The camp for high school juniors and seniors planning on being band directors, scheduled for July 12-14, has been cancelled.

In an e-mail to area directors, Dr. Ron Hufstader lauded the success of last year's inaugural camp and also lamented the low number of pre-registrants for this year's camp– only 9. The registration money would not have begun to cover the costs fro the two big-hitter clinicians, so there was basically no choice but to cancel. Waiting for last minute participants was just not an option, even apparently with the financial support of Conn-Selmer and Marching Show Concepts.

So area students have lost an opportunity for some great instruction and quality time with 'Dr. Tim', –who at least is pretty ubiquitous around the country and will no doubt pop up again,– but also Paula Crider from the University of Texas at Austin, which would have been a treat as she is NOT common on the student workshop series, as well as some great local leadership talent.

El Paso is known to be a last-minute kind of town, with all kinds of events not making their break-even points until late in the game. But I really hate to see this event not pull through. It is surprising, as we all know the band student's timeliness creed– " To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be ( your threat here)".